Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flower-heads
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
31 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10.5 x 10.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.419
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Catalogue text
Large, stylized tendrils, turning back upon themselves, with leaves and flower-heads attached and shown in profile. The pattern is red against a white background.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used is possibly 10.5 cm. x 10.5 cm., although the printing is well done and there is no clear break in design.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 412 on p. 122 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 122 fig. 412
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